Quill

1. Quill Reading and Writing with Microcomputers

2. Quill • Quill theory • Functional learning environments

3. Quill pedagogical goals • Encourage writing for peers • Develop writing skill in the context of meaningful communication with real audiences • Encourage feedback from others • Provide motivation to read the writing of others • Facilitate revision • Help with the mechanics of writing

4. Quill options Planner: Helps you to think of ideas for writing. You can take notes and get a list of your notes when you are finished. Library: Stores your writing so you can change or add to it later and others can read it. Mailbag: Allows you to send messages to your teachers and your classmates or read the messages they have sent to you.

5. Library goals • Creating a communication environment in which students write for their peers as well as for the teacher. • Organizing writing in different ways. • Providing easy access to stored pieces of writing

6. Library options • See: Read Library entries by choosing keywords or titles • Add: Put a new entry into the Library • Change: Change an old Library entry

7. Kids’ Review Classified Ads Newspaper Animal Encyclopedia How To Do It Poetry, novels, journals, . . . Television scripts Portfolios Selecting a Text Library activities

8. Choose an entry by using • Keywords • Title and author • Entry number

9. There are entries for these keywords 1. Reviews 6. Entertainment 2. Food 7. Delicious 3. Pizza 8. Italian 4. Animals 9. Games 5. Restaurant 10. Movies

10. There are 3 entries with the keyword: Pizza TITLE AUTHOR #1 AUTHOR #2 1. Rita's Pizza Steve Keywords: Pizza/Review/Italian 2. Gigliotti's Joan Vinnie Keywords: Pizza/Restaurant 3. House of Pizza Ed Keywords: Review/Pizza/Delicious

11. Library example Pizza lovers, stay away from Rita's Pizza! I'm sorry to say that poor Rita hasn't the knack for making pizza. When I ate there, I had to wait 25 minutes for my pizza. The crust was mushy and the sauce tasted like tomato juice. The center of the pizza had too much oil on it and it dripped all over my hands and the table when I picked it up. Maybe I went there on a bad day. It just seemed like everything was lousy. The only good thing about Rita's Pizza was that it had a room with video games.

12. Menudo novel

13. Mailbag goals • Encourage written communication to diverse audiences • Allow different kinds of writing to occur (informing, persuading, instructing, entertaining) • Motivate students to write more by personalizing the experience

14. Mailbag options • Read: Read messages to you, a group, or the Bulletin Board • Send: Write messages to other people, groups, or the Bulletin Board

15. Read mail • See YOUR OWN mail • See the mail of a GROUP • Look at the BULLETIN BOARD

16. Send mail • Send this message to a PERSON • Send it to a GROUP • Post it on the BULLETIN BOARD

17. Mailbag activities • Clubs • Bulletin Board • Secret messages • Confidential Chat • Jokes & riddles • Feedback on writing

18. Planner goals • Supporting the collection of notes or data for writing • Encouraging the organization and revision of ideas • Providing an environment for idea generation

19. Planner options • Use: Use a PLANNER to start working on your writing • Create: Make a new PLANNER • Modify: Change an old PLANNER

20. Planner activities • Book reviews • Science reports • Narrative • Editorial • Interview

21. A restaurant review planner • What is the name of the restaurant? • Where is it? • On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the restaurant • Would you go back again? • Who owns it? • What kinds of foods are served there? • What is their specialty? • How is the service?

22. Garden planner

23. Writer’s Assistant goals • Composing • Seeing what changes need to be made • Revising • Producing final copy • Peer editing and feedback

24. Writer's Assistant to revise Drugs are Dumb Benjamin M.Darren S. What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. their not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs. It would take a few months or weeks to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed. Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/

25. Revised version Dangerous Damaging Drugs Benjamin M. Darren S. What is bothering us the most in New Jersey is underaged kids are taking drugs. They're not getting enough education. Some kids even get killed! Adults should educate their children not to take drugs or not to get involved with drugs. To get help you should go to a psychiatrist for help! It would take an unlimited amount of time to get over this problem. It is important to solve this problem because sometimes people get killed. So be smart, make sure you don't take drugs! Keywords: /psychiatrist/drugs/children/killed/education/

26. MIXing paragraphs We'll tell you some things about Shungnak. In the winter it is very cold. In the summer it is very warm. A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood. They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share. A lot of people go camping in the summer. If they seine they will get a lot of fish. They smoke salmon fish for the long winter.

27. Paragraph form We'll tell you some things about Shungnak. In the winter it is very cold. In the summer it is very warm. A lot of people in Shungnak like to go hunting and go get wood. They shoot a lot of animals and bring them home and share. A lot of people go camping in the summer. If they seine they will get a lot of fish. They smoke salmon fish for the long winter . . .

28. Quill Teacher’s Guide "Where I'd Like to Live: Students write about places they’d like to live, using encyclopedias, travel brochures, maps, and magazines. Animal Encyclopedia: Students create their own reference book using their own categories. Disease Digest: Students create and publish a digest of childhood diseases indexed with keywords such as "contagious," "headache," and "spots." Classified Ads: Students create classified ads for things they want to sell or exchange, announcements, or services they need or have to offer and post them on the Bulletin Board in MAILBAG. Television Series: Students plan a television (or radio, play, movie, or book) series. They use a LIBRARY disk to store character descriptions and successive installments in their series. Game Review: Students write a Game Review planner and use it to create a disk with reviews of their favorite games. QUILL Cookbook

29. Quill teacher support-day 1 • Introductions • Overview of QUILL • Writing workshop • Introduction to the Apple II • Beginning Writer's Assistant: edit a simple file • Use MAILBAG to SEND and RECEIVE messages

30. Day 2 • CREATE and USE a restaurant review planner • Discuss integrating PLANNER into writing projects • ADD a restaurant review • SEE others' reviews • Comment on these texts using MAILBAG • CHANGE a restaurant review

31. Day 3 • Teacher's Guide • Advanced Writer's Assistant • Utility disk • Discuss classroom issues

32. Other support • classroom visits • local facilitator • hot line to provide follow-up help • electronic mail • monthly mailings containing samples of student work, ideas for activities, and software tips. • year-end conference

33. Realizations in the classroom • New ways of writing • Students writing to other students (writing with a purpose) • Students writing for themselves (writing to learn) • Too Late! (writing with an audience) • The Menudos (students writing together) • Holy Cross brochure (integrated learning)

34. Milling around

35. Other examples • Telida calendar, bilingual, with poetry & artwork • mail order catalogs • USS Alaska • Cu’pik/English dictionary • autobiographies • interviewing elders, writing biographies • native studies writing

36. Creating learning environments • Lab reports • Mail • Teacher-student dialogue • Telida Current (editing for the audience) • The Black History Show (changes in the writing process) • Revising becomes editing